Attempt to Commit a Crime

• Criminal attempt to commit an offense mainly revolves around the failure to complete the crime. The attempt with specific intent is a crime and an example of an inchoate offense.
  
  

Criminal Conspiracy

• Conspiring with another to commit a crime is an example of an inchoate crime. The central element of a conspiracy is the agreement. Proof of an agreement is often not necessary, just the existence of the agreement is enough.
  
  

Intent to Manufacture a Controlled Substance

• When a person builds a mechanism such as a meth lab, then acquires the chemicals substances used to make the meth, they have committed an inchoate offense. As with other inchoate offenses, it is the intent to commit the crime that matters, not the completion of the crime.
  
  

Solicitation

• The act of solicitation is in itself a crime. The crime of solicitation occurs when the offer is made. The crime ends with the asking. The acceptance is also a separate crime. Solicitation is an inchoate offense as it is connected to the underlying crime that is being solicited.